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<h1 class="whs1">Attribute form qualification</h1>
<p class="whs2">Attribute forms are additional descriptive information 
 about a business attribute. Most attributes only have the forms ID and 
 Description. But an attribute can have many other forms. For example, 
 the attribute Customer has the forms First Name, Last Name, Address, Email 
 Address, and so on. A form is a descriptive category for any data your 
 organization saves about any of its attributes.</p>
<p class="whs2">Attribute form qualifications allow you to filter 
 report data based on an attribute form. For example, to return data for 
 only those customers whose last names start with the letter H, you can 
 create an attribute form qualification defined with the form Last Name, 
 the operator Begins With, and the letter H as the value.</p>
<p class="whs2">The procedure below shows you how to create 
 a stand-alone attribute form qualification filter.</p>
<h2 class="whs3">To filter data based on business attribute 
 elements</h2>
<ol start="1" type="1" class="whs4">
	
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs2">On 
 the project's main page, click <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Create 
 Filter</B></span>. The New Filter page opens.</p></li>
	
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs2">In 
 the pane on the left, navigate to the attribute whose form you want to 
 filter a report's data by.</p></li>
	
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs2">Right-click 
 the attribute and select <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Add to Filter</B></span>.</p></li>
	<ul>
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p class="whs2">If 
 DHTML is disabled, select the attribute and click <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Add 
 &gt;</B></span> to add the attribute to the Filter panel.</p></li>
	</ul>
	
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs5">Create 
 the list of forms which the filter will use to filter data. To do this:</p></li>
	<ol type="a" class="whs6">
		
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs5">Click 
 <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Qualify</B></span>.</p></li>
		
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs5">From 
 the first drop-down menu, select the form you want to filter data based 
 on.</p></li>
		
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs5">From 
 the next drop-down menu, select the operator that describes how you want 
 to filter data, such as Begins With or Less Than.</p></li>
		
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs5">In 
 the last field, type the value to use to qualify on the attribute form. 
 This is the value that will be compared against the data in your data 
 source.</p></li>
		<ul>
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p class="whs5">Depending 
 on the operator you selected from the previous drop-down menu, you may 
 need to type multiple values. For example, the operator Between requires 
 two values.</p></li>
		</ul>
	</ol>
</ol>
<ol start="5" type="1" class="whs4">
	
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs2">Click 
 the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Apply</B></span> icon <img src="images/apply.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="17px" height="17px" border="0" class="img_whs7"> to create your filtering condition.</p></li>
	
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs2">Click<span 
 style="font-weight: bold;"><B> Save As</B></span>. The Save As dialog box opens.</p></li>
	
<li style="font-size: 9pt; " class=p><p class="whs2">Navigate 
 to the folder where you want to save the filter. Type a <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Name</B></span> 
 and <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Description</B></span> for the filter, 
 and click <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>OK</B></span>. Your new filter 
 is saved.</p></li>
</ol>
<p class="whs2">The filter you created can now be added to a 
 report. For steps, see 
<a href="Creating_a_filter.htm" style="font-size: 9pt;">Adding 
 a stand-alone filter to a report</a>.</p>
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